I’m using kde neon and plasma 6.3, and when opening grid view, it only shows applications from my currently active virtual desktop, not all virtual desktops.
Is it a software bug or is it intended? How could i config it so that it shows apps from all virtual desktops?
Thanks.
hi, welcome.
so screen edges is the setting you are using to access the “Desktop Grid” view?
which is one of the several options for hot corners.
Desktop Grid
this option should zoom out and show a 10,000 ft view of all your desktops – however they are arranged – and show how each open window appears on them.
if it’s not doing that, then it’s a bug.
other screen edge options available will show different views of your open apps but some are limited to just the current desktop, like “Present Windows - Current Desktop”
at least that’s how things are working on my plasma 5 desktop, plasma 6 might look slightly differnt, but should have similar options.
Hi. I was using a keyboard shortcut “KWin → Toggle Grid View”. And i just looked up the screen edges and set the “grid” to one of the edges.
However in both mode the result is the same. It only shows windows from one virtual desktop. As shown by the “virtual desktop pager”, i have window in desktop 1, but the grid view does not show it.
Also i just found that in “Settings - Window management - Desktop effects - Overview”, there’s a “Organize windows in the Grid View” setting. when toggle it on, all windows are shown. But I don’t like this mode since it will make windows small. Generally speaking, changing whether or not to “organize” windows shouldn’t make windows disappear, so I suppose there’s something wrong here 
the desktop effects setting for the “Overview” feature is separate from the “Desktop Grid” or “Present Windows” settings
all three are different ways of showing the workspace and presenting the the open windows.
i suggest trying the all three options and the variations within each one that you can change from the desktop effects settings and see which one best fits your use case, then i would assign that one to screen corner for easy access.
I’m sorry I can’t find neither of those two settings you mentioned. Could you tell me where are they?
click on the desktop and type “desktop effects”, then go to the settings page that comes up in the search result… all three types of effect are listed there under window management (near the bottom).
all three can be either activated by the keyboard shortcut or by assigning them to the screen edges / corners like i showed in the first pic.
all three have various settings you can try which change how they behave… they could all probably be consolidated at some point but that would take effort.
That’s weird. I only have “cube” and “overview” in this section:
Am I missing those? Could i install them somewhere?
Hi - I think what you’re wanting to accomplish can be done through the “Present Windows - All Desktops” function. That can be selected as a Screen Edge option in the menu that @skyfishgoo showed in the screenshot above, or activated using a keyboard shortcut:
Hi. I just tried that but the screen edge is not taking effect, and i cannot find that keybind entry. I think a major problem is that, those desktop effects that are responsible for showing them are missing. You can see from my previous screenshot that i dont have “desktop grid” nor “present windows” desktop effect. I also don’t have the “tile editor” effect, and i in fact cant open my tile editor as well.
calling up neon user edition in distrosea.com shows that only overview and grid are configurable in the settings or accessible via shortcut
the present windows options still exist under screen edges tho so i guess you just get what you get when set those.
it looks like they have consolidated some of this already the fact that you are showing the cube as an option means you are either not using the current version of neon, you are not using neon user edition.
or perhaps you installed cube somehow and that is affecting things.
Okay so I might have accidentally broken something. Is there anyway i can fix this other than reinstalling system?
it neon… prolly came that way 
srsly tho, if you are going to reinstall anyway, consider a better distro for the end user like kubuntu, fedora , or opensuse.
I do want kubuntu but that’s still plasma 5, and i want that floating panel in plasma 6 
is it easy upgrade-able?
kubuntu 25.04 is out now, but they are struggling with it and i would not recommend it.
i’ve asked if the LTS will see plasma 6 in the backports offering anytime before 26.04 and was told that is “doubtful”, so i’m on plasma 5 for the duration.
if that floating panel is a deal breaker then i would go with fedora, but personally even when i was briefly on plasma 6 (24.10), i disabled the floating feature… didn’t like it.
tuxedo is another option that might be more familiar since they are based on neon/ubuntu but pay more attention to quality control, so it’s a bit more stable than raw neon.
okay i just solved a side-problem: i cant open my tile editor before, but now i can open it after i removed some kde-related config file
for the original problem, i may stick to the “organize window in grid view” setting which, indeed, makes windows small but at least shows all of them.
I’m currently digging through kde5 files to see if i could manually install the old “desktop grid” effect, if that don’t work then it’s totally fine. Reinstall the whole system is too heavy for me so i’d rather not to.
Thanks a lot for your support!
